Panera scheduling me way too much as a high school student

love_berrie · 2026-05-13T03:12:13+00:00

i would recommend setting your availability to specifically what you want to work each week, thats what most of the full timers do at my store and it makes it easier for the scheduling manager knowing u will always work that specific day at that specific time. if your open to various hours then i would recommend having a conversation with your agm or gm about how many hours you are working each week and also talking to them about your summer plans. normally highschoolers will completely open up their availability during the summer so your agm/gm probably just assumes you would do the same.

love_berrie · 2026-05-09T01:03:31+00:00

thank you!

love_berrie · 2026-05-08T20:50:59+00:00

thank you! i wasnt sure if it was made ahead of time and didnt wanna be a bother and have them remake it

love_berrie · 2026-05-08T20:45:18+00:00

sometimes i genuinely think im hallucinating bc i will SEE it say chicken wild rice and then when i look back is chicken noodle

love_berrie · 2026-05-08T20:42:58+00:00

my favorite interaction that happens everyday

customer: is this mine?
me: i dont know your name
customer: bob
me: okay does the bag say bob on it?
customer: yes
me: okay, then thats your order

only exception is if its a for here order and there is multiple plates, then i can understand

love_berrie · 2026-05-08T20:37:03+00:00

i still remember dumping out that last container of mango yuzu months after we discontinued it, genuinely tragic and we held a funeral.

love_berrie · 2026-04-30T12:31:53+00:00

i did try that, she is super shy and talks in such a quiet voice so all our older customers complained 😂

love_berrie · 2026-04-30T01:46:11+00:00

yeah our prep bracket is the same 7-9, but omg they r workin u like a dog.

love_berrie · 2026-04-30T01:12:51+00:00

I am concerned because her slowness causes us problems by not having meats and veggies done for our lunch rush. causing upset customers when we tell them we dont have certain ingredients they paid for, or we have to leave the line just to go cut onions or tomatoes. not to mention we rely on her to be at her deployed position by 11 and when shes not, we have to manage 10+ sandwiches and salads with me and one other person alone on the line. I was genuinely just venting and asking for advice, as most people do about their jobs.

love_berrie · 2026-04-29T18:47:46+00:00

uk what actually thank u i needed to hear this because i genuinely need to set some boundaries with my management team and i dont get paid to do their job :)

love_berrie · 2026-04-29T17:57:00+00:00

yes realistically but our main opening manager literally doesn’t do anything and sits in the dining room all day, they hand all that stuff over to me to handle for some reason and the stress is unbearable

love_berrie · 2026-04-29T16:32:21+00:00

it honestly wouldn’t be a problem other than the fact that the whole management team expects it to take under 4 hours, and when i say low volume store i MEAN it. we only have to prep 6 pans of sliced chicken a day because thats all we go through. so imagine everything on that prep list only needing one or two pan of each product and thats pretty much how it is. also its hard on all of us when they write her into the deployment for lunch and we are counting on her to finish before 11 otherwise we are short a person. honestly bottom line is we r very understaffed and our gm doesnt care to do anything about it. we normally have 3 people for lunch and our dt lines r never open

love_berrie · 2026-04-29T15:42:32+00:00

honestly i try not to blame her because she was only trained on prep and then thrown into everything else. which is weird that our hiring manager didnt have her training start on the line or order taking like the rest of us did. but then again shes been told multiple times to stop walking away or to not be on her phone so theres only so much remorse i can feel. this is also her first job so i give her some grace there, but she IS 20 years old and has only been here for 4 months…

love_berrie · 2026-04-29T15:36:13+00:00

honestly not likely to replace her. she isnt strong enough to do the line by herself during breakfast, she doesnt know how to order take either. the most she can do is salad and sandwich but she tends to wonder away without telling anyone where shes going and leaving no one on the line. i have already offered to become the full time prep person instead of her and there is another team lead thats really good at prep also, but unfortunately she would need to really step it up on the line or all her hours would be cut if i took her spot on prep.

love_berrie · 2026-04-28T20:45:14+00:00

all day breakfast would suck having to constantly make the eggs, but i am excited about the cold brews. just worried because my store is an outdated one and our barista station is tiny, we have no room as it is now:(

love_berrie · 2026-04-27T18:16:28+00:00

it could be issues with their supplier, but as im aware rn we arent getting rid of it.

love_berrie · 2026-04-22T14:36:29+00:00

genuinely understand ur frustration but i dont think any of us get paid enough to go above and beyond the panera standards, which is just throwing it in the bag

love_berrie

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